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Revan
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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VG Cats # 184 - The Pungent Scent of Mildew
A beautiful visualization of why fighters are so frequently a** r***d by larger monsters.
And the Necromancer was just plain ROFLness.
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erwin
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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Emo freaks necromancers! ahaha..
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:12 am Post subject: |
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Xtian
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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Revan
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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I can't believe I haven't linked this one before:
Girl Genius, a webcomic by the incredible duo of Phil and Kaja Foglio of Magic: the Gathering art fame (D&Ders may be more familiar with their What's New with Phil and Dixie in the late lamented print run of Dragon magazine).
Page 1
Girl genius is a hilarious sci-fi alternate history, taking place in a Victorian Europe populated by Mad Scientists (more politely referred to as "Sparks"). Steampunk, Foglio style. Good solid storyline, and wacky art characteristic of the Foglios. EDIT: Bear with the earlier black and white stuff. It's good sheet, and once you hit the later parts, it's all in glorious color.
Oh, and out of raw wackiness, from the Foglio sketchbook, presenting a little known monster of the Cthulhu Mythos
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Xtian
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:12 am Post subject: |
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erwin
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:11 am Post subject: |
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*Casting Raise Dead*
Currently watching:
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Bamboo Blade
BTW does anyone have the copy of the new Genshiken? me want to read it.
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erwin
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:55 am Post subject: |
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Garfield minus garfield
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Revan
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:34 am Post subject: |
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Just finished reading Silient Blade by R.A Salvatore, starting with Spine of the World. Also I've been trying to keep up with my comic collection that I havn't read yet namely almost every DC comic titile till April '08
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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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Last time I read was a motorcycle magazine been reading about the latest models and newest gadgets.
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Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:52 am Post subject: |
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The four agreements.
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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:56 am Post subject: |
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Currently reading:
- Green Lantern & GL Corps: 2 words - Blackest Night
- JSA
- Final Crisis
Those are the comic books I actually buy.
Mudholed by: BJ
You are probably not familiar with this, as you've been gone a while. But the download of other people's intellectual property is not to be discussed in these forums.
Books I've been reading lately: accounting books (for our business that we're setting up in front of DLSU) |
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Young Adult Dragon
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:59 am Post subject: |
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Got around 30++ books in my collection that I need to read, probably when I'm jobless or if I can squeeze the tiime in during the weekends.
Half the books are either New Weird, Steampunk, Dark Fantasy or Sword and Sorcery. Hal Duncan, Jeff Vandermeer, Alan Campbell and lots more.
I buy most of my tomes from Fully Booked or NBS' cut price booksale during September.
Recently, Neutral Grounds slashed prices off their older DnD tomes, and I hoarded a couple of monster manuals, Vampire clanbooks, and other stuff for my own writing reference just like China Mieville who is my current god of the craft.
For Comics, I buy Legion of Superheroes (I'm a die-hard fan of Wildfire, Shadow Lass, Dawnstar, Timberwolf and Ultra Boy), Green Lantern, X-Infernus ( because they've brought back Magik aka Illyana), Astonishing X-Men (because Simone Bianchi draws like da Vinci), anything drawn by Kenneth Rocafort (he's better than Travis Charest, if you can believe)--namely Marvel's Astonishing Tales and the upcoming Cyberforce-Hunter Killer.
Books, comics, reference manuals are some of the best stuff you can waste half your salary on, especially if you're a writer/artist because the stuff helps you hone your craft and skill and is probably the cheapest way to live alternate lives in alternate worlds. 
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 3:37 am Post subject: Desert Island Books |
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Here's an interesting thought: If you were stranded in a desert island/moon/planet and could only have 10 books to keep you sane, what books would you have with you? Preferably hardbound of course.
My Picks:
1.Perdido Street Station- China Mieville's steampunk opus, combines retro-futuristic themes and magick, the author is only a year younger than I, but his body of work has surpassed everything that has already been written in speculative ficiton, the best New Weird writer right now.
2.Severian of the Guild- Gene Wolfe, a favorite of Neil Gaiman who is also a prose stylist, one of the books in this collected edition won the Hugo or Nebula--The Claw of the Conciliator yata.
3.Elric- Michael Moorcock, this guy elevated sci-fi/fantasy, weird pulp into a literary genre. also a prose stylist.
4.The Lord of the Rings-J.R.R. Tolkien, if not for him, there would be no other place to go after you died except heaven or hell, now if I die, I'd like to pass on to Middle-Earth.
5.Neuromancer-William Gibson, cyberpunk may sound cliche nowadays when most of the tech and environments of the novels are all too real already, but this hip, prose stylist is a master of noir, crime fiction set in a futuristic world.
6.Neverwhere-Neil Gaiman, his best novel for me because of the spooky and seductive world he creates that is a shadow of London. Although I might replace this choice with the Graveyard Book also by Gaiman.
7.The Iron Dragon's Daughter-Michael Swanwick, steampunk nightmare world that breaks traditional themes established in high fantasy, a very disturbing novel for purists and a wonderful read for anarchists like me.
8.Vellum-Hal Duncan, the writer is a superfluous faggot whose work is a supreme example that style can be as valuable as substance.
9.Dune-Frank Herbert, sci-fi where tech is played down and conflict between warring Houses is cloak and dagger. I'm a cult fan of Frank Herbert even if the latest prequels written by his son disrupt continuity.
10.Rats and Gargoyles-Mary Gentle, a Dickensian world with dying gods and steampunk tech. Difficult to read at first but the world building is so magnificent that you fall in love with the book. I'm trying to get my sister to get me a hardbound copy off Amazon.
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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:42 am Post subject: The Graveyard Book, and Borges |
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I just read the Graveyard Book, the new YA novel by Neil Gaiman. The story is inspiring and life changing. I now have Nobody Owens' passion for exploring the world and Silas' sense of duty to protect the innocent from creeps like the Jacks-of-all-Trades.
Of course, I fell in love with Liza Hempstock.
Right now, I'm starting to read Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine equivalent of Clark Ashton Smith. His surreal writings are making me believe that you can write in a style that is art for art's sake.
Weird pulp rules!
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erwin
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:21 am Post subject: |
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I just finished reading The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (basically the HGttG trilogy of 5 books (yes, you read that right) + Zaphod bonus story). It was juaberman's copy.
All I can say is it ended in the same way how the book started, absurd.
I enjoyed it very much. I was shocked with the plot of the last book though, didn't see that coming, with the way how the 1st 3 books were made.
ADD: I just learned that there is a 6th book. Haven't read it. Does anyone have it?
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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Revan
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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Yey Thread Nekomancy! *miao*
Current list:
-The House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski
This thing is a monster of a book. Part haunted house tale, breakup story, love story, rambling stream of consciousness, and a big flying-fsck you to the academic scholastic establishment, this is a fun and tough read so far. As I haven't finished reading it yet, I don't know if Danielewski's formal play actually says something important or if he's just pulling our reading leg for shites and giggles.
-Severian of the Guild by Gene Wolfe
Also working on this one, on and off with the House of Leaves. A highly acclaimed SF classic.
-Honor: A History by James Bowman
Non-fic on the concept of Honor and its historical evolution, and cultural perspectives. Damned fine reading.
-Vom Krieg (On War) by Carl von Clausewitz
No serious wannabe military buff should be without this book, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, and Machiavelli's The Prince. "War is a mere continuation of policy by other means."
-Eberron Campaign Guide, Dragonmarked, and Secrets of Xen'drik by Wizards of the Coast, Eberron created by Keith Baker.
I love the Eberron setting. Call it what you will, Steampunk, Dungeon Punk, Fantasy Noir or whatever. This game setting kicks arse and takes names. It's the bastard child of Full Metal Alchemist and Indiana Jones, with a little of In the Name of the Rose, The Maltese Falcon, and a healthy mix of the Industrial Revolution, the Age of Colonization, World War I, and the Cold War thrown in for good measure.
-The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Tanigawa
Haruhi Suzumiya is quite possibly the most awesome demiurge I've seen in a long while. And mountains of narrator snark by Kyon is pure win.
Honorable Mention: A whole slew of Osprey Military History books that I've been poking through. I've even got a book on the Japanese Ikko-Ikki warrior monks illustrated by Wayne Reynolds!
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Revan wrote: | -The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Tanigawa
Haruhi Suzumiya is quite possibly the most awesome demiurge I've seen in a long while. And mountains of narrator snark by Kyon is pure win. |
Did you pick up the translated paperback or the digital one?
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I will kill. I will let live. I will harm and heal. None will escape me. None will escape my sight.
Be crushed.
I welcome those who have grown old and those who have lost.
Devote yourself to me, learn from me, and obey me.
Rest. Do not forget song, do not forget prayer, and do not forget me.
I am light and relieve you of all your burdens.
Do not pretend. Retribution for forgiveness, betrayal for trust, despair for hope, darkness for light, dark death for the living.
Relief is in my hands. I will add oil to your sins and leave a mark.
Eternal life is given through death.
— Ask for forgiveness here. I, the incarnation, will swear.
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Revan
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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@Q: Paperback. A few of the tenses seemed slightly off, but the translation was pretty damned readable. Of course, I haven't compared it to the digital translations out there. It's going for around 300php in NBS, you'll just need to dig around in the Children's/Young Adult sections.
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Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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Found a hardcover copy of America (the book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction. Woot! Score! Reading Underway, entertaining
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Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:00 am Post subject: |
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Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
It's essentially a slice-of-life novel set in an office. Funny parts, depressing parts, (intentionally) awkward parts, pretty much what you'd expect from a realist piece of fiction. Kinda easy to get lost at first but I'm liking it now.
Winter's Heart - Robert Jordan
Book 9 of the Wheel of Time. Great if you've been following the series, better than the eighth book from the onset. Something you can really sink your teeth into, which actually could be said for every book in the series.
Fables 12 - Bill Willingham
Finally found it thanks to the power outage. I enjoyed seeing Geppetto as a crotchety old man haha. Kinda depressing on the whole though.
EDIT: Also, some required reading (for me, anyway).
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